Re: Hierarchal vs Non-Hierarchal Interfaces to Biological Taxonomy
From: Paul <paul_at_see.my.sig.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:46:46 +0000
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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:46:46 +0000
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paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote:
> Can't resist jumping in, even though I know nothing of the topic - it
> seems that there are many relations, apparently many of them are
> unexplored so far.
Indeed. It's part of what makes biology so interesting. Flowering plants can produce strange and wonderful hybrids for example.
What do you do it a bacterium appears to have half of its genome like bacterium X and half from (distantly related) bacterium Y.
And let's not even get into viruses.
I remember writing an essay for my degree - "What is the fundamental unit of evolution - A gene, an operon, an organism, a species or an ecosystem"
Paul...
> p
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